🦉 The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) Buteo lat .: buteo buzzard The buzzard is a master of patient waiting. Unlike the swift falcons, it prefers to sit for hours on a branch or roadside post, carefully

🦉 The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) Bombycilla bombux (Greek) silk, cilla (Latin) tail garrulus lat .: garrire to chatter, babble, chirp, garrulus chatty, chirping, noisy; ax prone to These birds

🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller This woodpecker is like a smaller

🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Alcedo alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa.

The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk I met this furry friend at an old cemetery on the way to the forest. In this place you can also meet different birds and small animals.

🦉 The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) fringilla (lat.) - finch; fi nco (Old German), fi nc (Old English) coelebs coelebs (lat.) - single, idle, unmarried These birds are true

🦉 The bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) Luscinia (lat.) Nightingale svecica suecicus (lat.) Swedish; the name svecica, according to the history of the description, is not a toponym, but is given for the color

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🦉 Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola), also known as the rusty-rumped warbler Helopsaltes - ? To be honest, my etymological reference book does not contain such a name; it was obviously

🦉 The yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting citrinella citrine (lat.) yellow; citrinella (Italian) yellow bird Although these birds are wintering, they prefer to leave

🦉 The white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) Dendrocopos (Greek): dendron - tree, coptō - to hit, beat leucotos (Greek): leukos - white, nōton - back This woodpecker is a rare guest in city parks,

🦉 The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) Pyrrhula (Greek): pyrrhos - red These plump, cute birds appear in the forests closest to cities around October. Males have a

🦉 The black kite (Milvus migrans) Milvus (lat) - kite migrans (lat.) - migrating It is difficult to confuse this predator with others - especially when it hovers over a yard or a river, spreading its

🦉 The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) Passer (lat.) sparrow montanus lat .: mōns, montis - mountain, mountain range, montanus - mountain These guys are close relatives of all the familiar house

🦉 The Eurasian nuthatch or wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) Sitta sittē (Greek) mentioned by Aristotle and other ancient Greek. by the authors of the bird, something similar to the woodpecker europaea (lat.)

🦉 🦉 The little bunting (Emberiza pusilla) Emberiza embritz (Old German) bunting pusilla pusillus (lat.) very small, tiny This species of bunting is really small. We call this bird "bunting-crumb".

🦉 The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) Anthus (ancient Greek mythology) Antus, son of Hippodamia, turned into a bird Trivialis (lat.) common, simple, banal The forest brother of the familiar to us white

🦉 The brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) Fringilla (lat.) Finch; fi nco (old German) montifringilla lat .: mōns, montis mountain, mountain range These birds, upon closer inspection, are very similar

🦉 The lesser spotted woodpecker (Picoides minor , synonym of Dryobates minor) Dryobates (Greek) : druos - forest, woodland, batēs - walker, stroller minor (Latin) - smaller This woodpecker is a real tiny